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the most interesting resnlts were obtained farther east 

 towards the Gulf Stream at a depth of four hundred, and 

 four hundred and thirty fathoms. At this depth the 

 dredge brought up about forty species of invertebrate 

 animals, among them Schizaster fragilis,* an arctic Euro- 

 pean sea urchin, Eupyrgus scaber^ an arctic holothurian, 

 and numerous worms, together with Pecten puHtidosus 

 Verr., not before found on our coast. On the sandy 

 bottom of the top of the bank the large Pecten teiiui- 

 costatus was abundant. 



The season being late, they were obliged to relinquish 

 the work for their duties at New Haven, and Messrs. 

 Packard and Cooke, of the Peabody Academy at Salem, 

 on the 11th of October, ran out from Boston in the 

 Bache, and were able to make one day's dredging on 

 the northeast end of the bank, in forty and forty-five 

 fathoms, on the sandy and gravelly bottom near the 

 crown of the bank, at or near the fishing grounds for 

 cod and halibut ; and then at the bottom of the bank 

 in eighty-five, one hundred and ten, and one hundred 

 and fifty fathoms, respectively, on a sandy, muddy bot- 

 tom. The first haul of the dredge, made in one hundred 

 and ten fathoms, proved exceedingly rich, bringing up 

 numerous shells and worms, though few Crustacea, but 

 several spatangoids {ScJdzaster fnigilis) and several sea 

 pens {Pennatula aculeata) which had been dredged for 

 the first time on this coast by Mr. Whiteaves in the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence in one hundred and sixty fathoms. 

 The hauls made in one hundred and fifty fathoms also 

 revealed these forms, and a singular starfish (^SoJaster 

 furcifer), and Arcliaster arcticus, an additional species of 



*Thi8 and the other species mentioned were identifled by Prof. A. E. Verrill, 

 who is pulJliKliing a rosume of the results in the current numbers of the American 

 Journal of Science an I Arts. 



